Alexander Wagner <a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: > Marco Pessotto wrote: > > Hi Marco! > >>> I don't understand why you mention Polyglot here. Toga is an UCI engine >>> and must be used that way. >>> When playing a game the book is managed by Scid, not by the engine. When >>> Scid does not find any move in the book, it will switch to the engine. >>> >>> First thing to check : can you open the books in the Book window ? (F11 >>> shortcut). >>> >>> Pascal >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> Now i see, my bad. It was a permission problem. If the files are 644 >> scid can't open it. In the makefile i see a lot of opening >> permissions. I'm building a slackware package and i changed them. I'll >> find a solution, maybe adding a README or something else. >> >> Just a suggestion: shouldn't be better scid open these files read-only, >> telling the normal user to copy the files in ~/.scid or somewhere >> else? > > Did you use current cvs version of scid for your build? Actually, I > hoped I fixed this read only problem this weekend and at least here I > was able to use read only books just like those opened rw. Scid just > disables the save button in book tuning and of course will not try to > write to those books. > > Therefore, can you confirm to use current CVS? If so, I'll check into > the issue again.
My build was from the stable release 3.6.26. I've tried a build from the current cvs and the problem seems to be fixed. Thanks. Could you post a patch? Would be safe applying it to the 3.6.26 release or to the 3.6.27-beta? Bests Marco Pessotto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
